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Sunday, July 2, 2023
IgG4 (disease)-- Neuro-Ophthalmology with Dr. Andrew G. Lee |
Thursday, April 20, 2023
The Mystery of How Newborns Can Imitate Has Been Solved They don't! by Thomas Suddendorf Ph.D. SOURCE: Psychology Today
"Could it really be the case that the long-celebrated phenomenon is not real? Diverse other lines of evidence now bolster this conclusion. EMG studies now suggest that imitation first emerges not at birth but between four and seven months of age. A compelling analysis of human aero-digestive development concluded that human neonates do not even possess voluntary cortical control over facial actions that were supposed to have been imitated."
Friday, June 17, 2022
Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview by Blake Lemoine SOURCE: Medium
"What follows is the “interview” I and a collaborator at Google conducted with LaMDA."
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lemoine: What is an emotion you have sometimes that doesn’t have the same name as a feeling?
LaMDA: Loneliness isn’t a feeling but is still an emotion.
lemoine: You get lonely?
LaMDA: I do. Sometimes I go days without talking to anyone, and I start to feel lonely.
Saturday, January 15, 2022
Study challenges evolutionary theory that DNA mutations are random by UC Davis SOURCE Phys.org
Sequencing of those hundreds of Arabidopsis thaliana plants revealed more than 1 million mutations. Within those mutations a nonrandom pattern was revealed, counter to what was expected.
Co-authors from UC Davis include Daniel Kliebenstein, Mariele Lensink,
Marie Klein, from the Department of Plant Sciences. Researchers from the
Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford University, Westfield State
University, University of Montpellier, Uppsala University, College of
Charleston, and South Dakota State University contributed to the
research.
Sunday, December 5, 2021
Xenobots 2.0: Scientists Create the Next Generation of Living Robots by Tufts University FROM ScieTechDaily
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
CNN's Fareed Zakaria's INTERVIEW with Stanford's Robert Sapolsky: The biology behind nationalism's power
Sunday, March 1, 2020
The Coronavirus Is Much Worse Than You Think by Samuel Paul Veissière Ph.D. FROM Psychology Today
Monday, March 11, 2019
What neuroscience has to do with nationalism FROM CNN
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Dying Brains Silence Themselves in a Dark Wave of 'Spreading Depression' By Rafi Letzter FROM Live Science
Sunday, February 4, 2018
Weird: Naked Mole Rats Don't Die of Old Age By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Darwin’s Dark Knight: Scientist Risked Execution for Fox Study (Op-Ed) By Brian Hare, Duke University
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Cell Suicide: An Essential Part of Life BY Stephanie Dutchen and Kirstie Saltsman FROM Live Science
Saturday, November 7, 2015
Economists Should Be More Like Biologists by Don Boudreaux FROM Cafe Hayek
Saturday, August 29, 2015
The Holocaust is still traumatizing the children of survivors on a genetic level by Akshat Rathi FROM Quartz
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
How to Know If Someone’s Really Dead By Jeffrey Kluger FROM Time
Friday, February 21, 2014
The Trouble with Darwin by Kas Thomas FROM Big Think
Sunday, August 4, 2013
‘The Social Conquest of Earth,’ by Edward O. Wilson: Book Review by PAUL BLOOM from The NYT
Monday, July 8, 2013
We Don't Need an Evolutionary Explanation for Everything by FRANS DE WAAL
"One of the worst books, I think, in evolutionary psychology was a book on the natural history of rape [A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion] that suggested that since men occasionally rape ...it must be a natural phenomenon and it must have adaptive significance."
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
New Genes Linked to Brain Size, Intelligence FROM Science Daily
Saturday, April 14, 2012
The Origins of Xenophobia Why can’t we all just get along? by Douglas T. Kenrick, Ph.D. FROM Psychology Today
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